An Italian mafia boss on the run for 20 years was tracked down to a Spanish town after being spotted on Google Street View. The Guardian reports: Gioacchino Gammino, a convicted murderer listed among Italy’s most wanted gangsters, was arrested in Galap…
We May Finally Be Able To Test One of Stephen Hawking’s Most Far-Out Ideas
New submitter GFS666 shares a report from Live Science: We may soon be able to test one of Stephen Hawking’s most controversial theories, new research suggests. In the 1970s, Hawking proposed that dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most…
World’s Largest Coal Port To Be 100% Powered By Renewable Energy
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The world’s largest coal port has announced it will now be powered entirely by renewable energy. The announcement from Port of Newcastle comes as coal power generation in Australia’s national elect…
Sony Will Explore Building Electric Cars
At CES in Las Vegas this evening, Sony’s Chairman, President and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida showed off a brand new prototype of its Vision S concept electric car, and announced that the Sony Group is starting a new division — the Sony Mobility Inc — which…
BMW’s Color Changing Car Concept Works Just Like An E-Reader
At CES 2022, BMW unveiled color-changing paint for its vehicles that relies on the E-ink electronic paper technology found in e-readers like the Kindle. Engadget reports: [N]o, this futuristic feature is nowhere near production ready despite appearing …
Crypto Platform ARBIX Flagged As a Rugpull, Transfers $10 Million
Arbix Finance, an audited and supposedly trustworthy yield farming platform, has been flagged as a ‘rugpull,’ deleting its site, Twitter, and Telegram channel and transferring $10 million worth of deposited cryptocurrency. Bleeping Computer reports: Ru…
FAA Agrees Not To Seek Any More 5G Delays From AT&T and Verizon
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Aviation Administration tentatively agreed not to seek any more 5G delays from AT&T and Verizon, potentially ending a battle over the aviation industry’s unproven claim that 5G tran…
Kosovo Bans Cryptocurrency Mining To Save Electricity
Kosovo’s government on Tuesday introduced a ban on cryptocurrency mining in an attempt to curb electricity consumption as the country faces the worst energy crisis in a decade due to production outages. Reuters reports: “All law enforcement agencies wi…
Google Fiber Workers In Kansas City Make a Bid To Unionize
A supermajority of customer service representatives for Google Fiber, operating out of a store in Kansas City, Missouri, have signed union cards in the hopes of bargaining their first contract with their bosses. Engadget reports: They’re organizing und…
Chevy Silverado EV Revealed: GM’s Best-Selling Truck Goes Electric
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Chevy Silverado, one of the top-selling pickup trucks in the US, is going electric. General Motors CEO Mary Barra unveiled Chevy’s answer to the Ford F-150 Lightning during a virtual presentation at t…